Sindarin 

-on

suffix. masculine suffix

A masculine suffix and ending in male names (PE17/43, 141; WJ/400), probably related to the masculine ending or agental suffix ✶-on(do) (NM/353; Ety/KAL). It becomes -or when following an n (PE17/141).

Conceptual Development: N. -on was often use as a male suffix in the Noldorin of the 1930s and 40s. In Gnomish of the 1910s, it seems G. -os was another common male suffix in words such as G. ainos “(male) god” from neuter G. ain “god” (GL/18) and G. hethos “brother” from neuter G. heth “✱sibling” (GL/48-49), though masculine G. -(r)on was still more common in this early period.

Cognates

  • Q. -ndo “masculine agent”

Derivations

Element in

Variations

  • -on ✧ PE17/141; WJ/387; WJ/400
  • -or ✧ PE17/141
Sindarin [PE17/141; WJ/387; WJ/400] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Adûnaic

suffix. masculine suffix

A suffix used to form masculine nouns from common or neuter nouns (SD/435). Another common variant was (SD/438).

Variations

  • ✧ SD/435

Noldorin 

-on

suffix. masculine suffix

Cognates

  • ᴹQ. -ndo “*agent (male)”

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶-ndō “agental suffix”

Element in

Variations

  • -on ✧ Ety/NU

-we

suffix. masculine suffix

Derivations

  • On. -wega “masculine name” ✧ Ety/WEG
    • ᴹ✶wegō “man; warrior” ✧ Ety/WEG
    • ᴹ√WEG “(manly) vigour” ✧ Ety/ING; Ety/WEG

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
On. -wega > -we[-wega] > [-weɣa] > [-weɣ] > [-we]✧ Ety/WEG

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Qenya 

-we

suffix. masculine suffix

Derivations

  • ᴹ✶wegō “man; warrior” ✧ Ety/WEG
    • ᴹ√WEG “(manly) vigour” ✧ Ety/ING; Ety/WEG

Element in

Phonetic Developments

DevelopmentStagesSources
ᴹ✶-wego > -we[-wego] > [-weg] > [-weɣ] > [-we]✧ Ety/WEG

Variations

  • -we ✧ Ety/WEG; PE21/01
Qenya [Ety/WEG; PE21/01] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Doriathrin

-on Reconstructed

suffix. masculine suffix

Apparently a masculine suffix attested in the name Dairon.

Element in

Gnomish

-os

suffix. masculine suffix

Element in

  • G. ainos “(male) god” ✧ GL/18
  • G. hiros “guardian, overseer, lord, master”
  • G. hethos “brother” ✧ GL/49

Variations

  • -os ✧ GL/18 (-os); GL/49 (-os)
Gnomish [GL/18; GL/49] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-weg

suffix. masculine suffix

Cognates

Element in

  • G. badweg “traveller; pedlar” ✧ GL/21 (badweg)
  • G. bridhweg “liege (m.)” ✧ GL/24
  • G. bridhwig “liege (f.)”
  • S. Bronwe “*Endurance”
  • G. Bronweg “Constant One” ✧ LT1A/Bronweg
  • G. driodweg “hero, warrior” ✧ GL/30
  • G. aithweg “warrior” ✧ PE13/109
  • G. faronweg “foreigner (m.)” ✧ GL/34
  • G. felweg “one’s fellow or equal, rival” ✧ GL/34
  • G. gothweg “warrior” ✧ GL/42
  • G. horweg “an ancient, old man” ✧ LT1A/Vailimo
  • G. enweg “name sake” ✧ GL/32
  • G. finweg “craftsman, man of skill” ✧ LT1A/Finwë
  • G. Manweg ✧ LT1A/Manwë
  • G. mothweg “shepherd”
  • G. curdhweg “sinner [m.]” ✧ GL/28
  • G. fedhirweg “lawman, lawyer” ✧ GL/34
Gnomish [GL/21; GL/24; GL/28; GL/30; GL/32; GL/34; GL/42; LT1A/Bronweg; LT1A/Finwë; LT1A/Manwë; LT1A/Vailimo; PE13/109] Group: Eldamo. Published by

Early Quenya

-nu

suffix. masculine suffix

A common masculine suffix in the Qenya Lexicon of the 1910s in words like varyanu “[male] foreigner”, probably a reduced form of ᴱQ. anu (QL/31) and often paired with its feminine equivalent ᴱQ. -ni.

Element in

  • Eq. ettanu “male cousin” ✧ QL/036
  • Eq. hestanu “brother” ✧ QL/040
  • Eq. túranu “king” ✧ QL/095
  • Eq. varyanu “foreigner” ✧ QL/100

Elements

WordGloss
anu“a male, man”
Early Quenya [QL/036; QL/040; QL/095; QL/100] Group: Eldamo. Published by

-ndo

suffix. masculine suffix

Element in

  • Eq. herendo “brother” ✧ QL/040
Early Quenya [QL/040] Group: Eldamo. Published by